Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
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Be inspired but not proud.
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You must be as joyful when you fail again and again as you are joyful when you succeed. It is often when you fail that you move toward the goal without being aware of it. You must feel joy even when you have not fully succeeded but only moved toward achievement of your goal.
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One has to see oneself through one's actions, works, and mind. Knowing the Self by the self is not as easy as writing that line. A yogi sees things in every movement he makes, maybe when practicing, maybe when teaching, or maybe when talking to people. You should have courage in your convictions and pursue what is dear to you all these years.
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Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them.
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There must be relaxation in full extension.
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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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Life without tapas, is like a heart without love.